A pandemic. A snowstorm. And a bored guy...

Los Angeles - A new COVID-19 vaccine site, part of a joint effort between the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the governor's Office of Emergency Services, opened Tuesday at Cal State Los Angeles. The community-focused site is able to vaccinate up to 6,000 people per day for both drive-thru and walk-up appointments and will also deploy a mobile clinic that will visit local community centers and schools. For LaTanga Hopes, what’s happening is personal. She’s had friends who have gotten COVID-19 and a cousin who died from it. Hopes also works for FEMA. On Monday, she got her first shot of the Pfizer vaccine here as everyone at the site prepared for its big opening for the general public on Tuesday. (Read More)

That escalated quickly...

After being shut down over the long weekend due to a vaccine shortage, the Dodger Stadium mass vaccination site has reopened this morning for 2nd doses only. Steady stream of cars but still not as busy as a couple weeks ago.

Rouge swan up in Thompson’s Station, Tennessee

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Texas -- Baylor University students enjoy their snow day without classes while posing near a fountain on campus

NYPD deploys 644 more cops into NYC subway system amid crime spree

Wheat Ridge Police Department (Colorado)

A Shul in Falsburg has collapsed due to heavy snow accumulation on the roof.
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BREAKING! Massive vehicle crash in Kentucky, unknown injuries.

So much for free speech on Parler.

Right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been banned from Parler from offensive jokes, despite the site claiming repeatedly to be pro-free speech.

Parler came back online for many users on Monday, after being kicked off of the internet and app stores by the Big Tech giants determined to shut the site down, claiming the conservative-oriented social media platform hosted violent content, and attempted to link Parler to the Capitol Hill protests on January 6th.

Eyebrows were raised when it was discovered that their new web hosting provider, SkySilk, bans undefined “hateful content” from being hosted by them, with SkySilk “reserving the right to refuse to provide service” to customers that host “racist, pornographic, hateful material or those which create customer service or abuse issues for us.”

The CEO of SkySilk, Kevin Matossian, said in a statement that they believed that Parler is “taking the necessary steps to better monitor its platform,” and applauded their new Community Guidelines, which provide a “double-filter” system for not-safe-for-work and “trolling” content.

After hearing about SkySilk’s regulations on “hateful” content, Milo Yiannopoulos, the right-wing provocateur, decided to stress test Parler and see what he could get away with on the site now with the new regulations.

Yiannopoulos, who is gay himself, posted statuses such as: “who wants to gay bash with me this weekend?”; “I mean this with all the Christian charity and compassion in the world – homosexuals should be hanged”; “death penalty for illegal immigrants when? I don’t get why we don’t shoot on sight,” among other edgy comments.

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